This is, says AFP, “an apparent revival of a practice that had all but vanished.”
Why is it being revived? Because it’s in the Qur’an, and so when it is discarded, some Muslims will continue to insist that their troubles can be attributed to having departed from Allah’s law, and claim that if full Sharia adherence is restored, other troubles will disappear.
The Qur’an prescribes amputation for theft: “The thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent from Allah. And Allah is exalted in might and wise.” (Qur’an 5:38)
It also prescribes double amputation for those who commit “corruption in the land,” and since these men had their hands and feet amputated, that is more likely to have been what they were accused of than theft alone.
“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and his messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the hereafter is a great punishment.” (Qur’an 5:33)
“UN offers to help catch Mali jihadists behind amputations,” AFP, May 13, 2021:
UN peacekeepers in Mali on Thursday offered to help bring to justice jihadists behind the amputation of suspected thieves’ hands and feet, an apparent revival of a practice that had all but vanished.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, local sources in Tin-Hama in eastern Mali said armed men drummed up a crowd on May 2, a market day, and cut the right hands and left feet off three men they paraded as thieves.
The gunmen are believed to have belonged to Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), one of the main jihadist groups active in the Sahel region, the UN’s Minusma force said in a statement.
“This kind of corporal punishment carried out by armed groups outside of any legal order is a serious infringement of human rights,” Minusma chief El-Ghassim Wade said.
UN forces stand ready to “support continuing enquiries by Malian authorities to fight impunity and ensure that the perpetrators of these acts are brought to justice,” he added.
Minusma also said it was deploying “significant security resources in the affected areas to step up protection of populations”.
The amputations “recall the horrors of the 2012 crisis” when jihadists and Touareg rebels took control of much of Mali’s north, the UN statement added.
At the time, various jihadist groups conducted public amputations, stonings, floggings and executions in major northern cities under their hardline interpretation of Islamic law….
Eric says
“Practice that had all but vanished…” I don’t believe that for a minute. Muslims implement Sharia and execute those who insult the Prophet Mohammed, or are gay, etc., but not chop off arms and legs? They chop off heads do they not?
Keith O says
Eric, you forgot to mention, the head comes off for the first offence as a warning to the accused and others and repeat offenders have their hands cut off.
Ah, the logic of Islam.
gravenimage says
Yes–this has been going on there for a long time:
“USE OF AMPUTATION AS PUNISHMENT IN NORTHERN MALI IS REASON FOR CONCERN”
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/use-of-amputation-as-punishment-in-northern-mali-is-reason-for-concern/
The above story was from 2012.
PRCS says
Especially for the victims–past, present, and future.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Michael Copeland says
“their hardline interpretation of Islamic law”
CORRECTION:
their hardline application of Islamic law.
PRCS says
correctamundo
Eur says
Mali is in danger. But make no mistake, we are also in danger, it is only a matter of time and percentage of the Muslim population. In all societies with a high percentage of Muslims there is always the danger that a power vacuum will be filled by the bearded men. The danger is Islam itself.
Infidel says
Mali is as islamic as any Arab country: they take pride in Mansa Musa and the various Islamic kingdoms that they had in history. Salvaging Mali should be the last of anyone’s priorities
Infidel says
Isn’t the punishment to cut off (I refuse to use the term ‘amputate’ for a medically unnecessary operation) the left hand and the right foot? Looks like the Malian jihadists got it wrong. Does someone have Quran 5:33 handy, where it mentions which hand and foot is to be cut off?
PRCS says
It says a hand and a foot on opposite sides.
Keith O says
Infidel, Typically they will cut off the right hand because they use the right hand to eat with and the left to wipe their arses.
Also, in their twisted minds, anyone who is left handed is seen as being evil. This was a teaching that was prevalent in the Catholic church for a long time, which is why the nuns in schools used to flog any child attempting to write with their left hand, something I have both witnessed and been on the receiving end of.
It dates back to roman times & possibly earlier when assassins would shake hands with someone then use their left hands to stab them whilst they had hold of the victims sword hand.
Which is why the term for left handed in Latin means “sinister”.
Michael Copeland says
A handy Koran is the online one: https://corpus.quran.com
joanofark06 says
The verse is in the article.
PRCS says
“”This kind of corporal punishment carried out by armed groups outside of any legal order is a serious infringement of human rights,” Minusma chief El-Ghassim Wade said.”
Good Muslims adhere to the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam which limits human rights to those permitted by Islamic law.
Mali’s population is 90% Muslim.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Amputation as punishment is also contemplated in the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution:
“… nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; …”
gravenimage says
Mark–with all respect–this is a bizarre misreading of the Fifth Amendment. “Life and Limb” is a general term in western law, *not* a reference to amputations. This has *never* been a penalty here, dating back to colonial times.
somehistory says
Perhaps this wording was included due to some punishments carried out in old England; the things that people who came here wished to escape,
https://www.livescience.com/59529-medieval-skeletons-with-hands-feet-amputated.html
Barbaric punishment
The types of cuts and their features suggest the limbs were cut as a form of punishment, the researchers said. In addition, the cuts are similar to those seen in England that involved male individuals who had either their feet, hands or legs amputated before death. [Medieval Torture’s 10 Biggest Myths]
In the 14th and 15th centuries, thieves and counterfeiters were sentenced to have their hands cut off, the researchers noted.
“Yet severe body mutilations were relatively rare and only applied to individuals considered very dangerous,” said Teresa Fernandes, a researcher in the Department of Biology at the University of Évora in Portugal”
gravenimage says
You have to go back centuries to find anything like this in the west.
somehistory says
If course, but when this country was brand new, the people living here had lived closer in time to things like that….perhaps had fled England, Portugal, etc., for that or similar reason. Prisons there were horrible…just read Charles Dickens’ books for examples of life in England when people were fleeing.
And, the people writing the Constitution, the Laws that would govern this country would want to cover all possibilities in order to keep tyranny out of the land.
Just as the more recent laws have to cover cyber crime. Up until a few years ago, there were no laws that specifically fit crime by computer, so the government had to write some in order to target them. Had they left a country that had cyber crime when the country was founded, they would have written in some laws to cover it.
So, the Amendments were designed to counteract what they had lived through in England and elsewhere.
somehistory says
mozlums don’t practice “law”…they engage in lawlessness. They have a special name for it, but it is still lawlessness.
Their book of filth and evil filth, demands that each mozlum engage in the evil and calls it a “law” but all of it is filthy, evil, lawlessness.
Cutting off a hand on one side and a foot on the other, basically sentences the person to a lifetime of begging, and possibly, thievery if no one will give them the things for which they beg.
satan the devil is so pleased that these scummy creeps are doing such harm. His end is coming and so too those who engage in doing his pleasure.
joanofark06 says
“His end is coming”….who’s end is coming??
And those who engage in doing his pleasure….you must be speaking of muslims?
No, they are not going to end.
Remember a few years ago, that HUGE immigration into about 27 different countries, a lot of them running into Europe?
If you think about it, AND know bible prophecy, it would all come together..
Look at this verse from Rev 20:4…..
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were BEHEADED for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark in their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Now, this is during the Tribulation, after the 3 1/2 or halfway mark of the 7 years, and after satan walks into a (newly built) temple, and proclaims himself “god”, is when he makes everyone worship him, and get his “mark”
Who’s NOT going to take to take the mark? Christians, Jews, and whoever decides at that time, to follow Christ.
Now who’s to going to do what Rev 20:4 says to do? (The CAPITALIZED word) The citizens of all those countries? No, they may not like the Christians, Jews, and whoever, but their not into killing them all….but WHO WOULD LOVE to do what Rev 20:4 says??
And THAT, my friend, is why satan had thousands and thousands, come walking, running, etc to all those NON-muslim countries, where the leaders of all the countries, were put to sleep by satan, to allow them in (and all these leaders at one area of time did this. Did they call each other, and tell each other what they were going to do? noooo….why would they let ALL of these muslims in, without knowing who or WHAT, or even caring of what they BELIEVED IN?)
So yes, I believe the Tribulation will start soon. These thousands of muslims are still coming into countries (Biden is letting them in THIS country by the thousands, just like obummer did, and Trump, to some extent). When satan feels he has enough of them in place…..then “the beginning of the end” will start.
I believe we have about 4 years left. With what Trump did, right before he left office, and didn’t finish….has a LOT to do with the 7 year peace treaty, that when signed, will start the 7 year Tribulation. And you heard, he said that he’s going to run again in 2024, and still now, trying to get back in office? He HAS to finish what he started, but I don’t believe he knows what God has a use for him for….but I see it, as well as I know my name!
Here’s one hint to think about….would you say “trump” is short for “trumpet”? Many more signs have appeared, and ARE appearing….it’s scary, but SOOO exciting!!!
somehistory says
The “end” of the entity about whom I wrote is obvious.
And that demon has more children than just “mozlums.”
And Jesus never gave us a time frame of how long the “great tribulation” would last, didn’t say how long the “end of this system” would last and so no one can determine how many “years we have left.”
You have expressed ideas that I have heard/read before from others and I don’t agree with all of your “understanding” of the “things written.”
Jesus will arrive with “surprising suddenness” and we “do not know the day or hour,” because if we did, we “would stay awake” knowing He will be “knocking” and we need to answer.
He gave us a “sign” of things that would come just before He returns, but He didn’t even give His apostles a time, or how long it would last before it’s all over and the wicked have been sent down the “broad road to destruction,’ and the others who do good to His brothers have been sent “off into life.”
And no, “trump” doesn’t mean I should think it’s short for “trumpet.”
Our Creator uses people who worship Him and also people who do not worship Him as He is “doing His will.” Mr. Trump may have his place in God’s purpose, but his name isn’t special in this regard, imo.
The angels are said to have trumpets, but these are not indicated as being humans.
gravenimage says
Sharia in action in Mali: Muslims amputate right hands and left feet of three men in accord with Qur’an
……………..
This is sickening–but it is mainstream Islam.
PRCS says
The filthy kuffar have been conditioned, really well-conditioned to believe that only “a tiny minority of extremists” would do that.
joanofark06 says
Only anyone would have to do, is see a graph, of how muslims are in each country now….non-muslim countries, that is….or use to be!
I wish I didn’t know why, thousands have come into all of those non-muslim countries…including the US….and are STILL coming.
It’s not to leave a “war torn country”…it’s not because their hungry, it’s not for some monetary reason, etc etc…..
joanofark06 says
Too bad for that…when we know it’s millions….
Walter Sieruk says
About Islamic law ,otherwise known as Sharia law. It should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia law is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started.
Thus this further reveals that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam. Therefore Islam is a hoax.
joanofark06 says
I call it satanism! a hoax?? Where do even get that from?
gravenimage says
Joan, a hoax can be evil. These things are not contradictory.